Fallen - Jordan Wadley (good book recommendations txt) 📗

it off with a roll of my eyes.

The slightest bit of pink tinged her small face and her heartbeat quickened in perfect rhythm as she murmured, “Sure,” and started clearing the table. My wolf howled, loving her reaction to us, it meant she felt an attraction to us as well.

Seriously? Don’t just let her do all the work, help her stupid! My wolf growled.

I almost growled at my own stupidity, I should’ve thought of that. “it’s cool, I got it,” I told her, swiping everything off the desk in one fluid motion and handing all of it to her. I could feel Ally’s gaze boring into my back and I bit back a sigh. That human girl just doesn’t know when to give up, I had a mate now for God’s sake, but then again, it wasn’t like she knew that.

I sat down and turned to Hanna who seemed like she was purposely ignoring my gaze. “Can I see your notes?”

She nodded slightly, not taking her eyes of her doodles, and passed me a few papers with neat handwriting on the lines.

“Thanks,” I said gratefully.

“No problem.” Her sweet voice held a certain gentleness, leadership and kindness. She had the ability to lead and to do so without causing riot.

A few minutes later, I caught sight of Hanna partially staring at me. I couldn’t help a small smile spread across my face when she shook her head from the daze. She seemed confused and scared, scared of what? I didn’t know. I guess that was normal, she didn’t know what to do about the attraction between us. But even as she tried to push herself away from me, pressing her thigh firmly against the leg of the desk, I felt hurt. She grimaced, trying to settle in a comfortable position but failing miserably.

I watched her discreetly for the rest of class. My wolf still beaming and howling at the sight of our mate. I, however, was feeling just the same as she was. I didn’t want to feel this attraction toward the beautiful blonde, I was into the sexy and seductive women clinging onto my arms at night. Oh God, the guys are going to give me hell about this. As kids, we were always joking about how none of us were ever going to find our mates. Although some of the guys wanted to find their mates, I liked being alone. I didn’t want to stand around and listen to some female gossip and yell about how this isn’t right and how wrong I am about my work like father’s made a point to prove. When Brandon met the new student who’d just transferred from some school in Canada, Juliette, and found out they were mates, all of the guys suddenly wanted to wait for their mates.

At first, we teased him about it, but we backed off after we saw how incredibly happy he was, it was remarkable. Brandon was always cheerful and joking about how mates were ‘lies’ until he met Juliette who literally punched him in the face when he said mates weren’t real. The guys didn’t know if it was the pride Brandon felt for Juliette for actually hitting a werewolf, or the fact that she was incredibly beautiful, but now he would literally lay his life on the line for someone he’s only known for three years.

Since they’ve been together we’ve accepted Juliette into our little group and became almost like a family, the rest of the guys loved her as a sister, and I’d also lay my life on the line to keep the brunette safe from other males like any older brother might.

Thinking of my friend and his mate brought my thoughts back to my own. Brandon got off easy with his mate when he broke the news that he was a werewolf to her because she told him she was the descendant of a werewolf, and she had just shifted for the first time a couple of months ago. That was kind of a rare occurrence since usually, the descendents lost the ability to shift if another werewolf wasn’t introduced into the family. They met a few months before that however and decided to tell each other what they were. However, Hanna was human and she doesn’t seem like the type of human to be too excited about discovering she’s lived with werewolves her entire life.

Even in my head, it sounded stupid. She’d probably think I was some sort of insane psychopath; then chuck on of her many binders at me. I wanted to bang my head against the desk in frustration.

I heard Hanna sigh wearily and watched her as she gave up on squishing herself as far away from me as possible and went back to her normal position. Our elbows touched for a millisecond and I shuddered. The sparks that ran along my skin were intensified since I had the strong end of the connection, Hanna must’ve only felt a slight tingle. However, with my werewolf genes it felt like I was gently electrocuted.

The sharp piercing noise of the bell pounded my eardrums, making me wince from the loud sounds. Having heightened senses wasn’t all what it was cracked up to be. I was a little late in getting up as Hanna rushed for the door. Her yellow agenda slid from the top of her stack and onto the floor with grace. Hanna wasn’t all too pleased with this and cursed a string of words, feeling the need to help I bent down and gave her agenda to her.

“Here you go,” I laughed a little. She couldn’t be more than five foot five or six, but she had this large stack of books in her arms that seemed nearly half her height. I put the agenda back on the top where it belonged.

Usually, I didn’t really mind it when a girl blushed, but as her face turned a darker shade of red I felt an urge to simply hold her.

“Damn paper, seriously. I feel like the paper itself is giving me bad luck!” She cursed, almost throwing her books into the floor and spun around surprised that I was still standing behind her. I watched her with spiked curiosity, she was interesting to watch, especially when she’s frustrated.

“I’m sorry, that wasn’t supposed to be said out loud. Thank you for… Um, the paper.” She seemed to force out the words as she clung onto her books tighter, as if wishing she could disappear

“Hanna, wait up!” Someone called. I almost growled at the interruption of another male’s voice calling her name, but I held in the animalistic beast and clenched my fist, keeping my face void of emotion. My wolf howled in anger and rage at the thoughts running through Jayden’s head, he lowered his head in sign of submission and silently apologized with his eyes.  

Jayden was also part of the pack but unlike many of the other males, I didn’t take a kind liking to Jayden and his friends. Being part of the pack gave each and every one of us an ability, mine as the Alpha was to talk to the others both in human and beast form. The other pack members could talk through pack link in beasts form but human form wasn’t something the other omegas could perform.

I told him exactly what I needed to through the look in my eyes and spun on my heel, the guilt coursing through me rung against my aching head as I put more distance between Hanna and Jayden. I ignored all the seductive stares the women sent at me and made my way to the back table with my friends, everyone knew not to mess with me when I was with my pack guys. The humans of the school knew that I didn’t like to be bothered when with my guys at lunch.   

Brandon clapped me on the back. “Hey man, you feeling okay? No food today?” He laughed.

There was no joking in his voice, the others knew this as well. They could feel the guilt and anger coursing through me, but knew not to press the matter.

“No hungry.” I cut the conversation short and crossed my arms, ending the sudden interrogation. Juliette raised an eyebrow at me questioningly. Damn it. Juliette wouldn't let me off the hook with this, she’d bomb me with questions until I spilled.

As a certain scent entered my nostrils, I jerked my head up immediately. She was here. I located her at the front doors, standing side by side with Jayden. A spark of jealousy overwhelmed me and I growled threateningly, my canines almost extending. Everyone at my table look at me in alarm then look at the girl now looking around the cafeteria with anger permitted in her eyes.

“Dude, you have to rein that in, there are humans in this school too,” Jon warned me. “I don’t know what’s go your panties in a twist but you better keep that wolf of yours in check.” he said, giving me a level look.

Brandon snickered at the panties comment and I whacked him upside the head. Hey, it wasn’t my fault that my mate had the most appetizing and enticing smell ever. She smelled like fresh tropical rain and freshly grown strawberries. She had this way of radiating warmth and I felt it seep into my bones when I was around her. She strengthened me and I knew that the girl standing across from me in the cafeteria was the one my life would be centered around. Hanna.

She ignored the many human’s whispering about our earlier encounters and stalked proudly to the end of the line with Jayden following behind. I felt pride swell in my heart at the sight of our mate acting so brave to stand before all the humans in the school without batting a lash. I stood taller, realizing that almost the whole cafeteria was staring at her, including my guys.

I pictured her standing before my pack, laughing and smiling with when someone said anything remotely close to a joke. I imagined her standing strong before the pack as we came up with defense systems and offensive attack plans. I shot her a smile when I noticed her staring at me, her mouth hanging slightly open in shock and annoyance. I watched her scrunch up her eyebrows in confusion and she gave me one last look before walking to her table. I sighed, maybe she wasn’t quite ready for this mate thing yet...she was only human after all. But it didn’t matter to me. I’d wait until the ends of time for  my mate to run to me.

 

Chapter Three:

Breaking eye contact with Max, I followed Jayden to our table that we shared with Kassia, just the three of us. Kassia’s long flowing blond hair, normally braided off to the side, and light blue eyes that hid behind a pair of glasses gave her a small demeanor of a fairy. She was always so light and graceful, sometimes I’d rather be Kassia than anyone else. She could’ve easily fit into to the popular cliques at our school but chose instead to remain with Jayden and I. I was always thankful that Kassia chose to stay with us, we’ve